How Sports Can Help You to Stop Smoking

One of the most effective ways to stop smoking doesn't come in the form of a patch or gum, it's your own physical activity. If you add some sports to your daily routine, you'll find that it will help you cut down on your smoking habits. Playing sports works your body hard, so you'd rather spend your downtime resting than smoking, and when you're actually playing a sport, you don't have time to smoke.

Consuming Time

• When you're playing sports, you're not smoking. This is the most effective way that sports help you quit. Unless you're planning to bring a pack of cigarettes with you to the football field, you'll likely have to put the smoking on hold while you're taking part in your sporting event. The sweat, the equipment, the coaches, the spectators and many other factors make sporting venues the last place where you'll be able to smoke.

Takes Away Energy

• Not only will you not be able to smoke while you're playing a sport, you may not smoke for a while after you're done. After a long day of intense, physical activity, your body is tired, and you're winded. You'll be using water and oxygen to rest your body; inhaling smoke will be the last thing on your mind. It's not an attractive option until your body is fully rested.

Guilt Trip

• Even when your body is fully rested, you may not want to smoke. Spend a full day running pick-up basketball games and see how good your body feels. You may feel a little sore, but you definitely will feel like you have done something productive. Sitting down for a smoke just makes you feel like all that hard work and sweat was for nothing. It may make you think twice about lighting up that next cigarette.

Healthy Lifestyle

• The more you play a sport, the more your life revolves around it. Your eating, exercising, sleeping and recreational habits all are focused on your sport. Smoking has no place in striving for a healthy lifestyle.